The player efficiency rating ( PER ) is John Hollinger 's all-in-one basketball rating, which attempts to collect or boil down all of a player's contributions into one number. Using a detailed formula, Hollinger developed a system that rates every player's statistical performance.
164-455: PER strives to measure a player's per-minute performance, while adjusting for pace. A league-average PER is always 15.00, which permits comparisons of player performance across seasons. PER takes into account positive results, including field goals, free throws, 3-pointers, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals and negative results, including missed shots, turnovers and personal fouls. The formula adds positive stats and subtracts negative ones through
328-2263: A c t o r × t m A S T t m F G ) × F G ] + [ 0.5 × F T × ( 2 − 1 3 × t m A S T t m F G ) ] − [ V O P × T O ] − [ V O P × D R B P × ( F G A − F G ) ] − [ V O P × 0.44 × ( 0.44 + ( 0.56 × D R B P ) ) × ( F T A − F T ) ] + [ V O P × ( 1 − D R B P ) × ( T R B − O R B ) ] + [ V O P × D R B P × O R B ] + [ V O P × S T L ] + [ V O P × D R B P × B L K ] − [ P F × ( l g F T l g P F − 0.44 × l g F T A l g P F × V O P ) ] ) {\displaystyle uPER={\frac {1}{min}}\times \left(3P+\left[{\frac {2}{3}}\times AST\right]+\left[\left(2-factor\times {\frac {tmAST}{tmFG}}\right)\times FG\right]+\left[0.5\times FT\times \left(2-{\frac {1}{3}}\times {\frac {tmAST}{tmFG}}\right)\right]-\left[VOP\times TO\right]-\left[VOP\times DRBP\times \left(FGA-FG\right)\right]-\left[VOP\times 0.44\times \left(0.44+\left(0.56\times DRBP\right)\right)\times \left(FTA-FT\right)\right]+\left[VOP\times \left(1-DRBP\right)\times \left(TRB-ORB\right)\right]+\left[VOP\times DRBP\times ORB\right]+\left[VOP\times STL\right]+\left[VOP\times DRBP\times BLK\right]-\left[PF\times \left({\frac {lgFT}{lgPF}}-0.44\times {\frac {lgFTA}{lgPF}}\times VOP\right)\right]\right)} When multiplied out and refactored,
492-1330: A c t o r × t m A S T t m F G ) ] + 2 × A S T 3 + V O P × [ D R B P × ( 2 × O R B + B L K − 0.2464 × [ F T A − F T ] − [ F G A − F G ] − T R B ) + 0.44 × l g F T A × P F l g P F − ( T O + O R B ) + S T L + T R B − 0.1936 ( F T A − F T ) ] ) {\displaystyle uPER={\frac {1}{min}}\times \left(3P-{\frac {PF\times lgFT}{lgPF}}+\left[{\frac {FT}{2}}\times \left(2-{\frac {tmAST}{3\times tmFG}}\right)\right]+\left[FG\times \left(2-{\frac {factor\times tmAST}{tmFG}}\right)\right]+{\frac {2\times AST}{3}}+VOP\times \left[DRBP\times \left(2\times ORB+BLK-0.2464\times \left[FTA-FT\right]-\left[FGA-FG\right]-TRB\right)+{\frac {0.44\times lgFTA\times PF}{lgPF}}-\left(TO+ORB\right)+STL+TRB-0.1936\left(FTA-FT\right)\right]\right)} Where With Once uPER
656-616: A field goal percentage of 62.3%. The Wildcats entered the SEC Tournament as heavy favorites and defeated LSU and Florida before losing to the Vanderbilt Commodores in the championship game. Despite the loss, the Wildcats earned the number one overall seed in the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . In the Wildcats' six NCAA Tournament games, Davis averaged 15.2 points, 11.2 rebounds and 4.6 blocks per game, and led
820-626: A national championship and was named the most outstanding player of the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . Davis left college for the NBA after one season and was drafted as the first overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets , and was selected that summer to play in the 2012 Olympics. After his rookie season, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team . The next season, he became an All-Star for
984-686: A 109–107 victory over the Charlotte Hornets . On January 28, Davis was named as a reserve for the 2016 NBA All-Star Game . He again came close to a five-by-five with a 28-point, 10-rebound, 4-assist, 4-block, 4-steal effort on February 3 against the San Antonio Spurs . The following day, he was named to the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge lineup. On February 21, in a win over the Detroit Pistons , Davis scored
1148-492: A 112–102 loss. On October 29, he became the first Laker to put up a 40-point and 20-rebound performance since Shaquille O'Neal in 2003. Additionally, Davis did this in 30 minutes of play, which has never been done in the history of the NBA. In the game Davis set the NBA record for free throws in a quarter (18) and the Lakers record for free throws in a half (18) and game (26). On November 27, Davis made his return to New Orleans for
1312-590: A 116–103 win over the Brooklyn Nets , to help the Los Angeles Lakers snap a five-game losing streak. In the next game, Davis recorded a then season-high 38 points, 16 rebounds and 4 blocks in a 128–121 win over the Detroit Pistons . On November 22, Davis posted a then-season-high 21 rebounds along with 37 points, 5 steals and 5 blocks in a 115–105 loss against the Phoenix Suns . He became the first player since
1476-620: A 116–99 loss to the Utah Jazz . His 10 blocks in a game set a franchise record and he tied his own franchise mark with six blocks in one half. Davis earned NBA Player of the Month for both the Month of February 2018 on March 1 and for the March/April time period on April 11. In the Pelicans' regular season finale on April 11, Davis had 22 points, 15 rebounds, four blocks and three steals in a 122–98 win over
1640-473: A 125–116 win over the Phoenix Suns . In the game he made a franchise record 21 free throws. On March 6, he scored 41 points despite a rib contusion in helping the Pelicans defeat the Clippers 121–116. He also tied his career high with four 3-pointers and had 13 rebounds. Five days later, on his 25th birthday, Davis recorded his first career triple-double with 25 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high 10 blocks in
1804-599: A 125–122 overtime win over the Charlotte Hornets . On March 31, 2017, Davis had 19 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks in a 117–89 win over the Sacramento Kings . During the game, Davis became the first player in Pelicans history to reach 2,000 points in a season. Following the season, he edged out Rudy Gobert as the center on the All-NBA first team. He was also named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for
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#17328914958471968-582: A 131–112 win over the Houston Rockets . On November 7, he had 32 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks in a 107–98 win over the Chicago Bulls . On November 12, he had 25 points and a season-high 20 rebounds in a 126–110 win over the Toronto Raptors . It was the fifth 20-point, 20-rebound game of Davis's career. On November 16, he scored a season-high 43 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in a 129–124 win over
2132-593: A Class 3A first team All-State selection. The Chicago Sun-Times selected him as an all-Public League selection. The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association included him in the Class 3A/4A boys all-state first team. In the March 30, 2011 McDonald's All-American Game, in front of a hometown crowd at the United Center , Davis made his first five field goals on his way to a 14-point, 6-rebound, 2-steal and 4-block performance. In
2296-777: A Kentucky single-game record for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament by blocking 7 against Western Kentucky . On March 25, Davis established the SEC single-season blocked shots record in the NCAA Tournament South Regional Championship game victory over Baylor , surpassing Jarvis Varnado 's total of 169. On March 31, he tied DeMarcus Cousins with 20 double-doubles for the Kentucky freshman-season record. He also surpassed Cousins' Kentucky freshman rebounds record of 374 with 415 rebounds. With six blocks in
2460-534: A batter can reach base besides a hit – as a batter on base can score runs, and runs, not hits, win ballgames. Even though slugging percentage and an early form of on-base percentage (OBP) – which takes into accounts base on balls ("walks") and hit-by-pitches – date to at least 1941, pre-dating both Bill James (born 1949) and SABR (formed 1971), enhanced focus was put on the relationship of times on base and run scoring by early SABR-era baseball statistical pioneers. SA and OBP were combined to create
2624-402: A career 2-for-23 three-point career record, Davis made a game-winning three-point buzzer beater against Oklahoma City Thunder as part of a 41-point, 10-rebound double-double. The 41-point performance marked a New Orleans record 13th consecutive 20-point performance, surpassing Pete Maravich of the 1976–77 New Orleans Jazz . On February 7, 2015, Davis injured his shoulder after falling off
2788-549: A career-high 43 points along with 14 rebounds against the Utah Jazz . He was a finalist for October/November Western Conference Player of the Month. On December 2, Davis fell one assist and one block short of becoming the youngest NBA player to ever record a five-by-five with a 25-point, 10-rebound, 4-assist, 6-steal, 4-block performance against the Oklahoma City Thunder . Davis entered the December 12, 2014 contest against
2952-430: A college level offensive game. Davis averaged a double-double and 6.5 blocks in the two games (November 15, 2011 and April 2, 2012) they played against each other, both on neutral courts. Davis led the Wildcats to a perfect 16–0 record in conference play en route to the SEC conference regular season championship. Davis finished the year with averages of 14.2 points per game, 10.4 rebounds per game, 4.7 blocks per game and
3116-498: A collision with Marcus Thornton of the Sacramento Kings . He was a 2013 NBA All-Rookie First Team selection, and finished second in NBA Rookie of the Year voting (with 306 points) to Damian Lillard (605). His 20 double-doubles was the most in his rookie class. As a rookie, he proved to be mostly a pick-and-roll threat on offense, but was effective in fast break transition and on
3280-406: A different player than Marcus Camby , but he's physically ahead of where Marcus was to start his freshman season." — Kentucky head coach John Calipari After most of the pre-conference schedule but before the 2011–12 Southeastern Conference men's basketball schedule , Davis's teammate, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist , was mentioned as a possible Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of
3444-547: A five-year, $ 202 million max contract in the upcoming summer. On August 8, Davis had 42 points and 12 rebounds in a 116–108 win over the Utah Jazz to help the Lakers clinch the No. 1 playoff seed in the Western conference. Davis was the team leader in rebounds (9.3), blocks (2.3, 3rd in the NBA) and steals (1.5) for the season. He played in 62 of 71 games during the regular season and finished as
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#17328914958473608-472: A franchise-record 59 points and pulled down 20 rebounds. The previous franchise record was 50 points by Jamal Mashburn exactly 13 years earlier against the Memphis Grizzlies . Davis joined Shaquille O'Neal and Chris Webber as the only NBA players with 50 points and 20 rebounds in a game since 1983. Davis also became just the 20th player in NBA history to score at least 59 points in a game, and became
3772-404: A game and the youngest since Shaquille O'Neal in 1993. In addition to his career game, Davis set a New Orleans' franchise record with six straight games of at least 28 points. Glen Rice set the previous best stretch with five straight in the 1990s. It was also the first 40-point performance by a Pelican/Hornet since David West on February 26, 2010. Davis was again a finalist for NBA Player of
3936-520: A game in the prior 30 years. Davis also reached 437 career blocks, a franchise record. On March 9, Davis tied his career high with 43 points and added 10 rebounds, 2 blocks and a steal in a 114–103 win against the Milwaukee Bucks . On March 15 in a double overtime game against the Denver Nuggets , Davis became the first player in NBA history to tally 36 points, 14 rebounds, 9 blocks and 7 assists in
4100-519: A game on April 9 due to his back. On April 10, the team announced that Davis would miss the remaining four games. Davis finished the season as the NBA leader in blocked shots per game (2.82). Davis was the youngest NBA leading shot blocker at 21 years, 36 days (on April 16, 2014 ). The record was surpassed 10 seasons later by Victor Wembanyama at 20 years, 101 days (on April 14, 2024 ). Because of his improved performance this season against his rookie season, Davis finished third in
4264-462: A game since blocks became a statistic in 1973. Only David Robinson has had at least 30 points, 11 rebounds, 8 blocks and 7 assists in a game. On March 16, Davis earned Western Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, March 9, through Sunday, March 15 and was a finalist for Western Conference Player of the Month of March. In the final game of the regular season, a must-win game that would send
4428-411: A job he held until 2015, and hired his assistant Paul DePodesta . During the 2002 season, a noted "moneyball" Oakland A's team went on to win 20 games in a row, a term (and approach to the game) which soon gained national recognition when Michael Lewis published Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (where "unfair" reflected the disparity in resources available to the big market teams versus
4592-413: A large number of shots. Hollinger responded via a post on ESPN's TrueHoop blog: Berri leads off with a huge misunderstanding of PER—that the credits and debits it gives for making and missing shots equate to a “break-even” shooting mark of 30.4% on 2-point shots. He made this assumption because he forgot that PER is calibrated against the rest of the league at the end of the formula. Actually, if we took
4756-417: A multitude of skills for the Wildcats with his ability to block shots, run the floor, score in the low post and face up to the basket." Since Calipari had coached Marcus Camby , who was also a tall shot-blocker, Davis drew comparisons to Camby. ESPN selected Davis as a preseason All-American along with teammate Terrence Jones . Some sources, such as Blue Ribbon , selected Connecticut 's Andre Drummond as
4920-441: A pair of double-doubles to average 20.5 points, 11 rebounds, 3.5 blocks and two steals in wins at Mississippi State and over Vanderbilt. The February 25 win against Vanderbilt clinched the 2011–12 SEC championship for Kentucky as Davis tallied a career-high 28 points as well as 11 rebounds and 5 blocked shots. ESPN 's Andy Katz described his SEC title-clinching performance as the most complete performance of his career. He
5084-440: A pitcher has a high BABIP, they will often show improvements in the following season, while a pitcher with low BABIP will often show a decline in the following season. This is based on the statistical concept of regression to the mean . Others have created various means of attempting to quantify individual pitches based on characteristics of the pitch, as opposed to runs earned or balls hit. Value over replacement player (VORP)
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5248-411: A pitcher is likely to put a player on base (either via walk, hit-by-pitch, or base hit) and thus how effective batters are against a particular pitcher in reaching base. A later development was the creation of defense independent pitching statistics (DIPS) system. Voros McCracken has been credited with the development of this system in 1999. Through his research, McCracken was able to show that there
5412-415: A player that was completely average in every other respect for the 2006–07 season—rebounds, free throws, assists, turnovers, etc.—and gave him a league-average rate of shots, and all of them were 2-pointers, and he shot 30.4%, he'd end up with a PER of 7.18. As long-time PER fans know, that would make him considerably worse than nearly every player in the league. To end up with a league-average PER of 15.00,
5576-448: A player's contribution in limited minutes, or against a team's second unit, and it undervalues players who have enough diversity in their game to play starter's minutes. PER has been said to reward inefficient shooting. To quote Dave Berri , the author of The Wages of Wins : Hollinger argues that each two point field goal made is worth about 1.65 points. A three point field goal made is worth 2.65 points. A missed field goal, though, costs
5740-452: A rapid growth spurt without any knee pains. During his junior year, his family considered having him transfer to one of Chicago's basketball powerhouses, but Hyde Park Career Academy head coach Donnie Kirksey advised against it, saying "If you're good enough, they'll find you wherever you are". Perspectives finished the season 8–15. Although he remained unnoticed nationally and locally after three seasons of Chicago Public League play, he
5904-630: A runner-up in voting for the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award . In Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, Davis hit a game winning 3-pointer against the Denver Nuggets while putting up 31 points and scoring the last 10 points for the Lakers in a 105–103 win for 2–0 lead in the series. It was Davis second career (first in the playoff) game-winning buzzer beater . They advanced to the 2020 NBA Finals , where Davis and LeBron James led
6068-440: A statistical point value system. The rating for each player is then adjusted to a per-minute basis so that, for example, substitutes can be compared with starters in playing time debates. It is also adjusted for the team's pace. In the end, one number sums up the players' statistical accomplishments for that season. Hollinger's work has benefitted from the observations of sabermetric baseball analysts, such as Bill James . One of
6232-610: A strained left groin in Game 4. He was also sidelined in Game 5, when the Suns took a 3–2 lead. The Lakers were eliminated in six games, despite Davis playing only five minutes in the first quarter of a 113–100 closeout loss in Game 6. On December 17, Davis exited in the third quarter of a 110–92 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves after suffering an MCL sprain in his left knee. He missed 17 games before returning in late January, and for
6396-508: A team 0.72 points. Given these values, with a bit of math we can show that a player will break even on his two point field goal attempts if he hits on 30.4% of these shots. On three pointers the break-even point is 21.4%. If a player exceeds these thresholds, and virtually every NBA player does so with respect to two-point shots, the more he shoots the higher his value in PERs. So a player can be an inefficient scorer and simply inflate his value by taking
6560-550: A then season-high 44 points, along with 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks in a 133–129 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks . On December 4, Davis scored a season-high 55 points along with 17 rebounds and three blocks in a 130–119 win over the Washington Wizards . He joined Kevin McHale as only the second player in NBA history to put up at least 55 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks in a game since blocks became an official stat in
6724-472: A victory over the Charlotte Bobcats . On November 17, he totaled 28 points and 11 rebounds against the Milwaukee Bucks . On November 20, Davis was announced to be out of the lineup for "a stress reaction" on his ankle. He was cleared to play on December 11, 2012 after missing 11 games. On December 18, he posted a career-high 4 steals to go along with 15 points and a then-career-high 16 rebounds against
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6888-647: A week in which he averaged 14.0 points, 11.5 rebounds, six blocks, 1.5 steals and 1 assist in wins over Lamar and fourth-rated Louisville . His third FOTW award came when he averaged 16 points, 7 rebounds, 4 blocks, 2.5 steals and 2 assists in wins at Auburn and at Tennessee where both his point totals were game highs. He earned his fourth FOTW when he averaged 15.5 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks in wins over Georgia and at Florida. He earned his first POTW recognition for averaging 20 points, eight rebounds, 7.5 blocks and 2 assists in wins over Tennessee and at South Carolina . For Davis's second POTW he posted
7052-430: Is also heavily dependent on the pitcher's team, particularly on the number of runs it scores. Sabermetricians have attempted to find different measures of pitching performance that exclude the performances of the fielders involved. One of the earliest developed, and one of the most popular in use, is walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP), which while not completely defense-independent, tends to indicate how many times
7216-583: Is another popular sabermetric statistic for evaluating a player's contributions to his team. Similar to VORP, WAR compares a given player to a replacement-level player in order to determine the number of additional wins the player provides to his team relative to an average ballplayer at his position. WAR, like VORP a cumulative statistic, heavily reflects the amount of a player's playing time. "Static" statistics based on simple ratios of already accumulated data (like batting average) and accumulative tallies (such as pitching wins) do not fully reveal all aspects of
7380-462: Is calculated, it must be adjusted for team pace and normalized to the league to become PER: P E R = ( u P E R × l g P a c e t m P a c e ) × 15 l g u P E R {\displaystyle \ PER=\left(uPER\times {\frac {lgPace}{tmPace}}\right)\times {\frac {15}{lguPER}}} This final step takes away
7544-562: Is little to no difference between pitchers in the number of hits they allow on balls put into play – regardless of their skill level. Some examples of these statistics are defense-independent ERA , fielding independent pitching, and defense-independent component ERA . Other sabermetricians have furthered the work in DIPS, such as Tom Tango who runs the Tango on Baseball sabermetrics website. Baseball Prospectus created another statistics called
7708-410: Is the earned run average (ERA). It is calculated as earned runs allowed per nine innings. Earned run average does not separate the ability of the pitcher from the abilities of the fielders that he plays with. Another classic measure for pitching is a pitcher's winning percentage . Winning percentage is calculated by dividing wins by the total number of decisions (wins plus losses). Winning percentage
7872-532: Is the original or blanket term for sports analytics , the empirical analysis of baseball , especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), founded in 1971, and was coined by Bill James , who is one of its pioneers and considered its most prominent advocate and public face. The term moneyball
8036-479: Is used for the practice of using metrics to identify "undervalued players" and sign them to what ideally will become "below market value" contracts, which debuted in the efforts of small market teams to compete with the much greater resources of big market ones. English-American sportswriter Henry Chadwick developed the box score in New York City in 1858. This was the first way statisticians were able to describe
8200-461: The Chicago Sun-Times reported that his father had asked Kentucky for $ 200,000 in exchange for a commitment from Davis. The report was initially released on Wednesday August 4, 2010 by Sun-Times reporter Michael O'Brien. Citing "a reliable source", he posted the following text: "Rumors/sources that have Davis choosing Kentucky are also alleging that the commitment cost $ 200,000." The sentence
8364-540: The 1973–74 season (when blocks and steals became an official stat) to record 35-plus points, 20-plus boards, 5-plus steals and 5-plus blocks in a game. It was his fourth consecutive game with 30-plus points and 15-plus rebounds. Davis also became just the third Laker in franchise history to record 30-plus points and 15-plus rebounds in four consecutive games, joining Elgin Baylor (had seven such streaks) and Shaquille O'Neal (November 19–26, 1999). On December 2, Davis scored
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#17328914958478528-467: The 2017 NBA All-Star Game , marking his fourth selection and second as a starter. On January 27, he had 16 points and tied a career high with 22 rebounds in a 119–103 win over the San Antonio Spurs . On February 2, he was selected as a participant in the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge . On February 10, he had 42 points and 13 rebounds in a 122–106 win over the Timberwolves. Davis scored 40 for
8692-420: The Charlotte Hornets . On March 20, he was ruled out for the rest of the season with a left knee injury and a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Upon being deactivated, Davis claimed that he had been playing through left shoulder pain since his rookie season. On October 26, Davis began the season with a 50-point, 16-rebound, 7-steal (career high), 5-assist, 4-block performance against the Denver Nuggets . He
8856-457: The Charlotte Hornets . He posted the game-tying score with 18 seconds remaining in regulation. On November 23, he had a 45-point effort in a 117–96 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves ; it was the Pelicans' fourth straight win. On December 23, he had 28 points, a career-high 22 rebounds and four blocked shots in a 91–87 win over the Miami Heat . On January 19, Davis was selected as a starter for
9020-511: The Chicago Sun-Times area 2010 Top 50 list. He was a pre-season first team all-state selection by the Sun-Times . By that time, he stood at 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m). His team's game against Whitney M. Young Magnet High School was nationally televised on ESPNU . Perspectives finished the season with a 6–19 record. Despite his growth, Davis continued to perform aspects of
9184-489: The Cleveland Cavaliers featuring the last three first overall NBA draft picks ( Anthony Bennett , Davis and Kyrie Irving ), Davis posted 30 points, 8 blocks, 7 rebounds and 3 assists. However, he dislocated his left index finger causing him to miss the next game the following night. On January 29, he was named a Rising Stars Challenge participant as part of the 2014 NBA All-Star Game weekend. On February 7, he
9348-411: The Cleveland Cavaliers with a player efficiency rating (PER) of 32.9, which would be the highest in NBA history if maintained for the full season. Davis was injured in the game and left in the first quarter. Davis was sidelined in the subsequent contest. He was a finalist for December Western Conference Player of the Month. On February 6, despite having missed his last 11 three-point shots and having
9512-623: The Golden State Warriors in his first start since being disabled on November 20. Davis appeared in the February 15, 2013 Rising Stars Challenge during the 2013 NBA All-Star Game weekend. Davis was removed from the Hornets' lineup on February 27 following a collision with Brook Lopez the prior night in which he sprained his left shoulder. On March 5, Davis returned to the starting lineup with 17 points, 15 rebounds and 4 blocked shots against
9676-482: The Golden State Warriors , becoming the first back-to-back-game 40-point scorer in Pelicans history (since the New Orleans Hornets creation in 2002). On November 10, he scored 32 points against the Milwaukee Bucks , helping the Pelicans record their first win of the season after starting 0–8. On November 19, Davis posted 38 points and 16 rebounds, including 11 of the Pelicans' final 16 in an overtime win against
9840-533: The Los Angeles Clippers . On January 19, he was ruled out for one to two weeks with a left index finger sprain, an injury sustained the previous night against the Portland Trail Blazers . On January 28, Davis informed the Pelicans that he would not sign a contract extension in the coming off-season, and requested a trade. He was eligible to become a free agent in the summer of 2020. A day later,
10004-534: The NBA Most Improved Player Award voting behind Lance Stephenson and Goran Dragić . Davis began the 2014–15 NBA season against the Orlando Magic with one of the best season-opening performances of all time: 26 points, 17 rebounds, 9 blocks, 3 steals and 2 assists. It was the first 9-block season-opener since Nate Thurmond had 12 to open the 1974–75 NBA season . The performance also marked
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#173289149584710168-464: The NBA Most Improved Player Award voting. He was selected to the All-NBA First Team for the first time in his career, becoming the first player to make the first team in his first three seasons since Derrick Rose did so in the 2010–11 NBA season . He was also an NBA All-Defensive Team second team selection. On July 9, 2015, Davis signed a five-year, $ 145 million contract extension with
10332-530: The New Orleans Pelicans . He plays the power forward and center positions. Davis is a nine-time NBA All-Star and has been named to four All-NBA First Teams and five NBA All-Defensive Teams . In his first season with the Lakers, he won the 2020 NBA Finals . In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team . He also won the inaugural NBA Cup in 2023 with the Lakers. Davis is widely regarded as one of
10496-532: The New York Knicks . A day later, he recorded 40 points, eight rebounds and a career high-tying eight assists in a 125–115 win over the Denver Nuggets . On November 21, Davis missed the third of three free throws with 2.5 seconds left, as the Pelicans lost 121–120 to the Philadelphia 76ers . He finished with 12 points and 16 rebounds and reached 10,000 career points with a dunk late in the first half. He became
10660-518: The New York Knicks . He followed that up with a 45-point/16-rebound overtime effort on January 16 to lead the Pelicans past the Boston Celtics 116–113. On January 18, he was named a 2018 NBA All-Star Game starter. On January 28, he had 25 points and 17 rebounds in a 112–103 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers . Davis's rebound total gave him a franchise all-time high of 3,857, eclipsing David West 's mark of 3,853. On February 2, he passed West as
10824-656: The New York Mets in 1984, he arranged for a team employee to write a dBASE II application to compile and store advanced metrics on team statistics. Craig R. Wright was another employee in MLB, working with the Texas Rangers in the early 1980s. During his time with the Rangers, he became known as the first front office employee in MLB history to work under the title "sabermetrician". David Smith founded Retrosheet in 1989, with
10988-452: The Oklahoma City Thunder . On December 28, he hit a go-ahead, fall-away jumper with 43.9 seconds left and scored a season-high 48 points to lift the Pelicans to a 114–112 win over the Mavericks. On January 2, 2019, Davis posted a career-high and franchise-record 26 rebounds along with 34 points against the Brooklyn Nets . On January 14, he had 46 points and 16 rebounds in a 121–117 win over
11152-507: The Orlando Magic . On March 9, Davis established a career high in rebounds with 18 to go along with 20 points against the Memphis Grizzlies . On March 20, Davis tipped in the game-winning basket over Kevin Garnett against the Boston Celtics with 0.3 seconds remaining. On April 10, Davis suffered a season-ending left knee medial collateral ligament sprain and bone bruise. He was injured in
11316-417: The Utah Jazz . With two 8-block games in the Pelicans' first 11 games of the 2013–14 NBA season, Davis matched the number of 8-block games that Roy Hibbert had at that time in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 NBA seasons combined. No other players had two 8-block games as recently. According to ESPN, while drawing a charging foul from Amar'e Stoudemire , Davis suffered a non-displaced fracture in his left hand in
11480-418: The peripheral ERA . This measure of a pitcher's performance takes hits, walks, home runs allowed, and strikeouts while adjusting for ballpark factors. Each ballpark has different dimensions when it comes to the outfield wall so a pitcher should not be measured the same for each of these parks. Batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is another useful measurement for determining pitchers’ performance. When
11644-486: The 1973–74 season. Davis became only the fourth player to score at least 99 points in a two-game span while shooting at least 70% from the field; Elgin Baylor had three of those streaks, Wilt Chamberlain had two and David Thompson had one. He also became the first Laker with back-to-back 40-point games since Kobe Bryant in March 2013. On December 5, Davis was named the NBA Western Conference Player of
11808-516: The April 9 Nike Hoops Summit, Davis led the USA Basketball team to a 92–80 victory over the world team with a team-high 10 rebounds to go with 16 points and two blocks. He was named co-MVP of the April 16 Jordan Brand Classic game after posting 29 points (on 13-for-15 shooting), 11 rebounds and four blocks in a losing effort. Davis's 29 points was the second-highest point total in the first 10 years of
11972-661: The Blue Division of the Chicago Public High School League, which is ignored by the media because of its lower level of competition. Perspectives is a charter school that operates as a math and science academy; it has a strong academic reputation, but minimal athletic success. The school had no gymnasium and Davis's middle school basketball teams practiced at the nearby Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago's historic South Loop District . In junior high school, he
12136-457: The Davis family both threatened to sue the Sun-Times over the article; however, no lawsuits were filed by Kentucky or the Davis family. The Davises and Kentucky claim the restated publication was false. Illinois' one-year statute of limitations on libel cases expired before any lawsuits were filed. Davis signed his National Letter of Intent on November 10, 2010. He began his senior season on
12300-465: The Hall of Fame. PER since 1951–52 Prior to the 2013–14 season, LeBron James was on the verge of surpassing Michael Jordan 's career PER to take the number one spot. As the metric is averaged over the length of a player's entire career a decrease in efficiency later in his career means a player can move down in the ranking; Jordan's PER took a big hit in the final two years of his career when he returned to
12464-439: The Hornets as prescribed by the NBA's collective bargaining agreement. On November 1, 2012, Davis made his debut against the San Antonio Spurs . He scored a team high 21 in a losing effort. On November 2, Davis suffered a concussion that sidelined him for two-and-a-half games until November 9. In his November 9 return, he posted his first double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds as well as 5 blocks, 2 steals and 2 assists in
12628-558: The Jordan Brand Classic, following only LeBron James 's 34-point performance. Sources: Davis committed to the Kentucky Wildcats, coached by John Calipari . Before his college career began, he was being mentioned as the first overall selection in the 2012 NBA draft . In late February Dick Vitale mentioned the possibility that Davis might complete the men's college basketball awards Grand Slam of National Player of
12792-406: The Lakers on a five-year, $ 190 million contract that included an early termination option prior to the fifth season in 2024–25. For the 2020–21 season, he was sidelined for 30 games from February to April 2021, the longest absence of his career, due to right calf and heel issues. In the opening round of the playoffs, the Lakers were up 2–1 in the series against the Phoenix Suns when Davis suffered
12956-443: The Lakers to a 4–2 win over the Miami Heat for the franchise's 17th championship, tying them with Boston for the most in league history. Davis became the eighth player to achieve the basketball Triple Crown , and the first player to win an NCAA title, an Olympic gold medal, a FIBA World Cup, and an NBA title. Davis and James were the first teammates to be first team All-NBA since 2007. On December 3, 2020, Davis re-signed with
13120-542: The NBA fined him $ 50,000 for making his request public. Davis recovered from his injury and was available to play, but the Pelicans said they would hold him out until after the league trade deadline on February 7. After the deadline passed without a trade, the team announced that Davis would play the rest of the season; they faced potential fines by the league if they held him out. On February 8, he played for first time since his trade request. He had 32 points, nine rebounds and three blocks in 25 minutes before being benched for
13284-436: The Pelicans to the 2015 NBA playoffs , Davis recorded 31 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks in a 108–103 victory over the defending-champion San Antonio Spurs. The playoff berth was Davis's first and the franchise's first since 2011. Davis's season was one of the most impressive in NBA history, finishing the season averaging 24.4 points, 10.2 rebounds, 2.9 blocks, and leading the league in player efficiency rating with 30.89. He
13448-533: The Pelicans. On November 6, he tied his career-high of 43 points in a loss to the Atlanta Hawks . On December 1, he tied a career-high 9 blocked shots in an offensive off night against the Memphis Grizzlies . On December 20, in a win over the Denver Nuggets , Davis scored a single-quarter career-high 19 first quarter points to finish the game with 27. On January 15, Davis converted an alley oop dunk from Jrue Holiday with 2 seconds remaining to give New Orleans
13612-543: The Pelicans. On January 5, Davis had 8 of the Lakers' 20 blocks against Detroit. Although 20 was one block shy of the franchise record, the team set an all-time NBA record for block percentage (25.6%) by blocking 20 of 78 shot attempts. On January 23, 2020, he was selected to be a front-court starter for the NBA All-Star Game . In January 2020, Davis declined the Lakers' offer of a four-year, $ 146 million max extension, opting to enter free agency, where he could earn
13776-464: The Spurs. In Game 1 of the Pelicans' first-round playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers , Davis had 35 points, 14 rebounds, four blocks and two steals in a 97–95 win. It was the Pelicans' first postseason win since 2011 and the first of Davis's six-year career. In Game 4, Davis scored 33 of his franchise playoff-record 47 points in the second half, as the Pelicans completed a first-round sweep of
13940-526: The Trail Blazers with a 131–123 victory. In Game 3 of the Pelicans' second-round series against the Golden State Warriors , Davis recorded 33 points, 18 rebounds and four steals, as the Pelicans defeated the Warriors 119–100 to trim Golden State's series lead to 2–1. The Pelicans went on to lose the series in five games, with Davis recording 34 points, 19 rebounds and four blocks in a 113–104 loss in Game 5. At
14104-410: The Week (FOTW) honors (November 14, 2011, February 1, 2012, January 16, 2012 and May 3, 2012). He earned his first FOTW honor for debuting with a double-double, including 23 points, 10 rebounds, 5 blocks and 3 assists against Marist on November 11, 2011. Only Jones and Sam Bowie had previously had 20 or more points and 10 or more rebounds in their Kentucky Freshman debut. His second FOTW came in
14268-951: The Week and MVP). Those which are most useful in evaluating past performance and predicting future outcomes are valuable in determining a player's contributions to his team, potential trades, contract negotiations, and arbitration. Recently, sabermetrics has been expanded to examining ballplayer minor league performance in AA and AAA ball in a manner similar to evaluating it at the Major League level, known as Minor-League Equivalency. Machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to predicting future outcomes in baseball modeling, in-game strategy, personnel handling, and roster-building and contract negotiations. Bill James' two books, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (1985) and Win Shares (2002) have continued to advance
14432-446: The Week nominees on March 10. On March 14, Davis established a career high with 36 points against Portland. On March 16, 2014, (the very next game) Davis scored a career-high 40 points along with a career-high 21 rebounds in a 121–120 overtime win against the Boston Celtics . The performance was the first 40-point, 20-rebound effort of the 2013–14 NBA season . Davis was the fourth-youngest player (21 years and 5 days) to achieve 40/20 in
14596-549: The Week on March 17 and 24. In late March, Davis began suffering a series of injuries. On March 28, Davis injured his left ankle, after four minutes of play against the Jazz. He missed the rest of the game and the next one. Davis returned to the lineup on March 31 against Sacramento . However, on April 2, Davis endured back spasms that caused him to miss the second half against the Nuggets . Davis saw limited minutes on April 4 and missed
14760-420: The Year , Defensive Player of the Year , Freshman of the Year and the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming draft." During the exhibition portion of the season for the 2011–12 Wildcats, Calipari described Davis as follows: "He's 6–10 with a 7–3 wingspan and he can shoot the 3 and dribble the ball and lead the break. . ." Less than a month into the season, ESPN 's Andy Katz described him similarly: "Davis offers
14924-413: The Year . However, after less than a month of Southeastern Conference play, Davis was not only being mentioned as conference player of the year, but also National Player of the Year. By mid-February, he was considered a National Player of the Year front-runner with his primary competition coming from Thomas Robinson of Kansas . As the season progressed, he continued to battle Robinson while developing
15088-630: The Year for the SEC as well as an All-SEC performer. Following the 2012 SEC tournament, he was selected to the SEC All-Tournament Team. During the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season , Davis blocked more shots per game than most Division I men's teams. In the January 17 contest against Arkansas , Davis set the Kentucky men's basketball record for single-season blocked shots surpassing Melvin Turpin and Andre Riddick , who each had 83. In
15252-891: The actual break-even mark in this case is 48.5%, which is exactly what the league average is on 2-point shots this season. Hollinger has set up PER so that the league average, every season, is 15.00, which produces sort of a handy reference guide: Only 33 times has a player posted a season efficiency rating over 30.0 (with more than 15 games played in that season), with the highest score being 32.85 ( Nikola Jokić ). Michael Jordan , LeBron James , and Nikola Jokić lead with four 30+ seasons each, with Shaquille O'Neal , Wilt Chamberlain , Giannis Antetokounmpo , and Joel Embiid having accomplished three each, Anthony Davis having accomplished two, and David Robinson , Tracy McGrady , Dwyane Wade , Stephen Curry , Russell Westbrook , Chris Paul , and James Harden with one. As of April 16, 2023. Active players are listed in bold . * Indicates member of
15416-491: The advantage held by players whose teams play a fastbreak style (and therefore have more possessions and more opportunities to do things on offense), and then sets the league average to 15.00. Also note that it is impossible to calculate PER (at least in the conventional manner described above) for NBA seasons prior to 1978, as the league did not keep track of turnovers among other advanced statistics before that year. Sabermetric Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics )
15580-517: The allegations to the Sun-Times , stating, "We haven't asked anyone for anything, and no one has offered us anything". The article was reposted on the Sun-Times ' website and included in the print edition on Friday August 6. O'Brien wrote "sources from three separate universities told the Sun-Times that Davis Sr. asked for money in return for his son's commitment, with the amounts ranging from $ 125,000 to $ 150,000." The University of Kentucky and
15744-552: The basket. In 2009, former ABA and NBA Coach Larry Brown was quoted as saying: "The college game is much more physical than [the NBA]. I always tease Michael [Jordan], if he played today, he'd average 50." All calculations begin with what is called unadjusted PER (uPER). The formula is: u P E R = 1 m i n × ( 3 P + [ 2 3 × A S T ] + [ ( 2 − f
15908-411: The best defenders in the NBA through the 2006–07 season, routinely posted single-digit PERs. Bear in mind that this rating is not the final, once-and-for-all answer for a player's accomplishments during the season. This is especially true for players such as Bruce Bowen and Trenton Hassell who are defensive specialists but don't get many blocks or steals. Some have argued that PER gives undue weight to
16072-456: The championship game, he achieved a total of 186 for the season, surpassing Hassan Whiteside 's 2010 total of 182, to set an NCAA Division I freshman record. This also tied the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game record for blocks established by Joakim Noah in the 2006 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . Starting in the championship game gave him a total of 40 starts for
16236-410: The defensive 3 second rule ("a defensive player may not station himself in the key area longer than three seconds"—a longstanding rule which had been ignored by referees) had a major effect, opening up the game and allowing a more free-flowing offense; it encouraged aggressive inside attack based plays (to draw fouls), and has increased the number of fouls given when contact is made on players who drive to
16400-474: The early 1970s Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB), used an IBM System/360 at team owner Jerold Hoffberger 's brewery to write a FORTRAN -based baseball computer simulation . In spite of his results, he was unable to persuade his manager Earl Weaver that he should bat second in the lineup. He wrote IBM BASIC programs to help him manage the Tidewater Tides , and after becoming manager of
16564-473: The eighth-youngest player to reach the milestone at the age of 25 years and 255 days. Davis also recorded 5 steals, 5 blocks and 6 assists to achieve a five-by-five. On December 5, he scored 27 points to go with a career-high nine assists, five blocks and four rebounds (nine below his average) in a 132–106 win over the Dallas Mavericks . On December 12, he had 44 points and 18 rebounds in a 118–114 win over
16728-502: The end of the season, he finished 3rd in the NBA Most Valuable Player Award voting and 3rd in the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award voting. Following the season, he earned his first NBA All-Defensive First Team and his third All-NBA First Team selections. In the Pelicans' season opener on October 17, Davis had 32 points, 16 rebounds and a career-high eight assists to go with three blocks and three steals in
16892-524: The entire fourth quarter in a 122–117 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves . In July 2019, the Pelicans traded Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Lonzo Ball , Brandon Ingram , Josh Hart and three first-round draft picks, including the Lakers' No. 4 overall selection in the 2019 NBA draft . He made his Lakers debut on October 22, 2019, against the Los Angeles Clippers , putting up 25 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in 37 minutes in
17056-471: The equation above becomes: u P E R = 1 m i n × ( 3 P − P F × l g F T l g P F + [ F T 2 × ( 2 − t m A S T 3 × t m F G ) ] + [ F G × ( 2 − f
17220-423: The field of sabermetrics. The work of his former assistant Rob Neyer , who later became a senior writer at ESPN.com and national baseball editor of SBNation, also contributed to popularizing sabermetrics since the mid-1980s. Nate Silver , a former writer and managing partner of Baseball Prospectus , invented PECOTA ( Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm ) in 2002–2003, introducing it to
17384-465: The first 26-point/17-rebound/9-block/3-steal effort since Hakeem Olajuwon during the 1989–90 NBA season . On November 8, against the San Antonio Spurs , he posted 27 points, 11 rebounds and 6 blocks, including the game-winning basket with 6.6 seconds remaining. It marked the 5th time Davis had 25 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks since the beginning of the prior season. No other player has had multiple such games in that time. On November 22, Davis scored
17548-633: The first game of the Fort Wayne, Indiana Spiece Fieldhouse event. In August 2010, Davis played in the Nike Global Challenge in Hillsboro, Oregon . In the opening game, he had 23 points and 9 rebounds. Davis verbally committed to Kentucky on August 13, 2010, choosing it over DePaul , Ohio State and Syracuse . On August 24, 2010, he became the number one rated player in the national class of 2011 at Scout.com . Before Davis committed to Kentucky,
17712-501: The first player in basketball history to win an NCAA title, NBA title, Olympic gold medal and FIBA World Cup. He is also one of only eight players to ever achieve the basketball Triple Crown . Born in Chicago , Davis grew up in the Englewood neighborhood and played high school basketball for Perspectives Charter School , where he had attended school since sixth grade. The team plays in
17876-412: The first quarter against the New York Knicks on December 1. Yahoo! Sports claims the injury came on an attempted alley oop . On December 3, the Pelicans announced a four-to-six-week layoff was expected. The injury came the night before he was supposed to play in his hometown of Chicago, marking the second year in a row that he was sidelined for his chance to play in his hometown. Davis returned to
18040-590: The first time and led the NBA in blocked shots per game . He has since become the youngest player to score at least 59 points in an NBA game. In 2017, he was named the recipient of the NBA All-Star Game MVP Award after setting an All-Star Game scoring record of 52 points. Davis was traded to the Lakers in 2019. He has won gold medals with the United States national team on their 2012 Olympic team , 2014 World Cup team and 2024 Olympic team , making him
18204-448: The first time since 2013 was not selected for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game . On February 16, 2022, in a 106–101 win against the Utah Jazz , Davis injured his right ankle and missed 18 games. In the 40 games he played during the season, Davis averaged 23.2 points, 9.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.3 blocks in 35.1 minutes of per game, and the Lakers missed the playoffs. On November 13, 2022, Davis scored 37 points and grabbed 18 rebounds in
18368-404: The first time since the trade, recording 41 points and 9 rebounds in a 114–110 win over the Pelicans. The 41 points set an NBA record for the most points scored by a player in his first game against a former team. On December 8, Davis scored a season-high 50 points in a 142–125 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves . On January 3, 2020, Davis had 46 points and 13 rebounds in a 123–113 win over
18532-423: The floor, 12.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.3 blocks. Davis missed three games in early December with an adductor strain. On December 27, 2017, he had 33 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks in a 128–113 win over the Brooklyn Nets . On January 14, 2018, Davis scored a season-high 48 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, leading New Orleans back from 19 points down late in the third quarter to a 123–118 overtime victory over
18696-454: The franchise's all-time leading scorer by posting 43 points in a win against the Los Angeles Clippers giving him a total of 8,702. On February 23, he had 45 points, 17 rebounds, five blocked shots and five steals in a 124–123 overtime win over the Miami Heat . He hit a 3-pointer during the game, giving him a career-best 41 3-pointers in a single season. Three days later, he recorded a season-high 53 points, 18 rebounds and five blocked shots in
18860-524: The game represented in their numeric totals. Advanced metrics are increasingly developed and targeted to addressing in-game activities (such as when a team should attempt to steal a base, and when to bring closers in). Sabermetrics are commonly used for everything from sportswriting to baseball Hall of Fame consideration, selecting player match-ups and evaluating in-game strategic options. Advanced statistical measures may be utilized in determining in-season and end-of-the-season awards (such as Player of
19024-430: The game with the Washington Wizards , posting 20.7 in his penultimate season and 19.3 in his final season, compared to his career high of 31.7 (Jordan's PER was 29.1 without accounting for his Wizards years). The debate was intensified on 1 October 2013, with Jordan stating that he would have liked to have played against LeBron, and believes he would have won a one-on-one encounter. Several news features focus on comparing
19188-482: The game, he established a career high with 27 points and added 14 rebounds and 5 blocked shots. On February 4, against South Carolina, Davis established the SEC freshman record with 116 blocks surpassing Shaquille O'Neal 's total set for LSU . One of the most notable blocks of the season was a block of John Henson with four seconds left to preserve a 73–72 victory when number one Kentucky hosted number five North Carolina on December 3. On March 15, Davis established
19352-418: The game, including batting, pitching, baserunning, and fielding. A ballplayer's batting average (BA) (simply hits divided by at-bats ) was the historic measure of a player's offensive performance, enhanced by slugging percentage (SA) which incorporated their ability to hit for power. Bill James, along with other early sabermetricians, was concerned that batting average did not incorporate other ways
19516-797: The greatest power forwards of all time. Davis played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats , when he was first team All-American and the Consensus National Player of the Year . He also won the USBWA National Freshman of the Year , NABC Defensive Player of the Year and the Pete Newell Big Man Award . Davis led the NCAA in blocks and set Southeastern Conference and NCAA Division I freshman single-season blocked shots records. He led Kentucky to
19680-400: The lineup on December 18 against the Los Angeles Clippers with 24 points, 12 rebounds and 3 steals. He returned to the starting lineup in the next game with 21 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks and a steal against Portland on December 21. He missed 7 games due to the injury. In his seventh consecutive 20-point game (all losses), Davis posted 31 points and 17 rebounds against Golden State . In
19844-677: The modern statistic on-base plus slugging (OPS). OPS is the sum of the on-base percentage and the slugging percentage. This modern statistic has become useful in comparing players and is a powerful method of predicting runs scored by any given player. An enhanced version of OPS, "OPS+", incorporates OPS, historic statistics, ballpark considerations, and defensive position weightings to attempt to allow player performance from different eras to be compared. Some other advanced metrics used to evaluate batting performance are weighted on-base average , secondary average , runs created , and equivalent average . The traditional measure of pitching performance
20008-456: The more important rule changes that should be considered include; some of the players on this list, such as Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell , played before the three-point shot, blocks, and steals stats were officially recorded. Blocked shots and steals were first officially recorded in the NBA during the 1973–74 season. The three-point shot entered the league in 1979–80 season. During the 1990s and 2000s, numerous rule changes were incorporated,
20172-434: The number of minutes played as well as the pace of the game. PER largely measures offensive performance. Hollinger freely admits that two of the defensive statistics it incorporates—blocks and steals (which was not tracked as an official stat until 1973)—can produce a distorted picture of a player's value and that PER is not a reliable measure of a player's defensive acumen. For example, Bruce Bowen , widely regarded as one of
20336-541: The objective of computerizing the box score of every major league baseball game ever played, in order to more accurately collect and compare the statistics of the game. The Oakland Athletics began to use a more quantitative approach to baseball by focusing on sabermetric principles in the 1990s. This initially began with Sandy Alderson as the general manager of the team when he used the principles toward obtaining relatively undervalued players. His ideas were continued when Billy Beane took over as general manager in 1997,
20500-418: The offensive boards. He needed to develop his isolation and post-up skills. His rookie skill set was said to resemble a young Lamar Odom , but he added over 10 pounds (4.5 kg) following his rookie season. After the 2012–13 season, the Hornets renamed themselves the Pelicans. Davis donated $ 65,000 toward the construction of a basketball court at his alma mater, Perspectives. On October 16, 2013, during
20664-514: The plate, location, and angle (if any) of a break. FanGraphs is a website that utilizes this information and other play-by-play data to publish advanced baseball statistics and graphics. Anthony Davis Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. (born March 11, 1993), nicknamed " AD ", is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for
20828-402: The playoffs. Davis also became the first player in 40 years to average 30 points and 10 rebounds in a player's first playoff series, with the only other players to do so being Wilt Chamberlain , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bob McAdoo . At the end of the season, Davis finished 4th in the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award voting, 5th in the NBA Most Valuable Player Award voting, sixth in
20992-544: The preseason Freshman/Newcomer of the Year ahead of Davis, although Davis was the only freshman on the ESPN 10-man preseason team. Davis only received one vote for the Associated Press preseason All-America team. "Anthony is a tremendous shot blocker with great size and length. He can make 3-pointers, dribble the ball and he can get up and down the court faster than some of our guards because of his long, looping strides. He's
21156-470: The preseason of Davis's sophomore year for the 2013–14 New Orleans Pelicans , the Pelicans exercised the team's third-year option on Davis's contract. Davis began the 2013–14 NBA season with the newly-renamed Pelicans with a pair of double-doubles, posting 20 points and 12 rebounds against Indiana on October 30 and 26 points and 17 rebounds against Orlando on November 1. In the Orlando game, Davis became
21320-403: The primary observations is that traditional counting statistics in baseball, like runs batted in and wins, are not reliable indicators of a player's value. For example, runs batted in is highly dependent upon opportunities created by a player's teammates. PER extends this critique of counting statistics to basketball, noting that a player's opportunities to accumulate statistics are dependent upon
21484-465: The public in the book Baseball Prospectus in 2003. It assumes that the careers of similar players will follow a similar trajectory. Beginning in the 2007 baseball season, MLB started looking at technology to record detailed information regarding each pitch that is thrown in a game. This became known as the PITCHf/x system, which uses video cameras to record pitch speed at its release point and crossing
21648-491: The rim when he received an alley-oop. As a result of the injury, he withdrew from the 2015 NBA All-Star Game , and was replaced on the roster by Dirk Nowitzki and in the starting lineup by LaMarcus Aldridge . Davis missed five games in late February and early March to the shoulder sprain. He returned against the Detroit Pistons with a very dominant game performance of 39 points, 13 rebounds and 8 blocks, numbers that only Hakeem Olajuwon and Dwight Howard had achieved in
21812-438: The role of a guard during the season by bringing the ball up the court and shooting outside shots. For the season, he averaged 32 points, 22 rebounds and 7 blocks. In high school, Davis earned numerous honors for his basketball abilities, including being named to the 2011 McDonald's All-American Game and the 10th annual Jordan Brand Classic . He was a first team USA Today All-USA high school basketball team selection. He
21976-421: The season, which tied Kentucky's single-season record along with teammate Marquis Teague . Davis declared for the 2012 NBA draft alongside the rest of the national championship team starting five : fellow freshmen Kidd-Gilchrist and Teague, and sophomores Jones and Doron Lamb . At the 2012 NBA Draft Combine , Davis measured at 6 feet 9.25 inches (2.06 m), 221.8 pounds (100.6 kg) and had
22140-644: The second freshman ( Kevin Durant ) to win the Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year . On March 31, he won the John R. Wooden Award . The following day he won the Naismith College Player of the Year . He was Kentucky's first Naismith winner and the first from the SEC in 42 years ( Pete Maravich ). Davis was named to the 2012 Sporting News All-American first team. He
22304-510: The second time. On November 22, 2017, Davis had 29 points and 11 rebounds in a 107–90 win over the San Antonio Spurs . He finished the game with 7,938 career points, moving him into second in franchise history ahead of Chris Paul (7,936). He was subsequently named the Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from November 20–26. Davis led the Pelicans to a 3–1 week behind averages of 29.5 points on .586 shooting from
22468-435: The second-longest wingspan —7 feet 5.5 inches (2.27 m)—of any player participating. On June 28, the New Orleans Hornets selected Davis with the first overall pick . Davis became the fifth Chicago-area first overall selection following Cazzie Russell (1966), LaRue Martin (1972), Mark Aguirre (1981) and Derrick Rose (2008). On July 24, 2012, Davis signed a three-year $ 16 million guaranteed contract with
22632-500: The sixth time this season, and it was his highest-scoring game since he put up 45 against Minnesota on November 23. On February 19, 2017, playing on his team's home floor for the NBA All-Star Game , Davis notched 52 points and 10 rebounds, breaking Wilt Chamberlain's previous All-Star record high of 42 points, and also won the game's Most Valuable Player award. This record has since been broken by Jayson Tatum in 2023 . On March 11, 2017, Davis scored 46 points and grabbed 21 rebounds in
22796-578: The small) in 2003 to detail Beane's use of advanced metrics. In 2011, a film based on Lewis' book – also called Moneyball – was released and gave broad exposure to the techniques used in the Oakland Athletics' front office. Sabermetrics reflected a desire by a handful of baseball enthusiasts to expand their understanding of the game by revealing new insights that may have been hidden in its traditional statistics. Their early efforts ultimately evolved into evaluating players in every aspect of
22960-441: The sport of baseball by numerically tracking various aspects of game play. The creation of the box score has given baseball statisticians a summary of the individual and team performances for a given game. What would become the earliest Sabermetrics research in the 1970s and 1980s began in the middle of the 20th century with the writings of Earnshaw Cook , one of the earliest baseball analysts. Cook's 1964 book Percentage Baseball
23124-517: The subsequent game on January 20, he helped the Pelicans snap an 8-game losing streak with 27 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks against Memphis . On January 26, Davis established a new career high with 19 rebounds, in addition to posting 22 points and 7 blocks, in a 100–92 victory over the Orlando Magic. On January 27, Davis was a finalist for Western Conference Player of the Week but lost out to Kevin Durant . The January 28 contest against
23288-555: The team to its eighth NCAA championship. Davis was named the 2012 Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year . On March 19, he won the US Basketball Writers Association 's (USBWA) Robertson trophy. The Commonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky named Davis the Adolph Rupp Trophy winner on March 22. CBSSports.com recognized Davis as their national player of the year. On March 30, he became
23452-461: The three-point foul and clear path rules were both introduced in the 1995–96 season with the effect of increasing the number of free throws, hand-checking (the amount of contact a defender may make with an opposing player) was banned in 1994 and the use of elbows was banned in 1997 (both rules had seen various degrees of limitation by earlier rule changes) although neither was fully implemented until 2004. The 2004 rule changes, which also included calling
23616-458: The two players by using the PER metric. At the conclusion of the 2012–13 NBA season Miami Heat head coach, Erik Spoelstra , stated that comparing players from different generations is the equivalent to comparing apples and oranges . explaining: "You'll never be able to tell [how James stacks up to Jordan or Magic Johnson] because they didn't play against each other. The game is different now than when it
23780-524: The week, Davis earned an NBA Player of the Week nomination, but lost out to Kevin Love . On November 8, against the Los Angeles Lakers , Davis scored a career-high 32 points and tied a career high with 6 blocks, along with 12 rebounds, becoming the youngest player ever to have at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks in an NBA game. On November 16, he established a new career high with 8 blocks against Philadelphia . He again had 8 blocks on November 20 against
23944-415: The youngest player in NBA history to score 59 points in a game, and the second youngest (behind Bob McAdoo ) to record 50 points and 20 rebounds in a game. The 59 points was an NBA-wide season high at the time. The total was not surpassed until the final night of the season when Kobe Bryant posted 60 in his final career game. Davis posted a third 40-point game (40 points and 13 rebounds) on March 9 against
24108-450: The youngest player in franchise history to record 25 points and 15 rebounds in a game. In the third game of the season against Charlotte on November 2, Davis established career highs with 6 blocks and 6 steals, while helping New Orleans to its first victory. He also became the first player with 6 blocks, 6 steals and 25 points in a game in the last 20 years and only the fifth with at least 5 blocks, 5 steals and 25 points in that period. For
24272-447: Was a finalist for Western Conference Player of the Month again in April. In his first career playoff series, Davis averaged 31.5 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game. Although swept by the overall number one seeded Golden State Warriors , who went on to win the NBA championship, Davis joined Shaquille O'Neal , Hakeem Olajuwon , and Karl Malone as the only players in the past 20 seasons to average 30 points and 10 rebounds in
24436-547: Was a first-team Parade All-American . He was also a first team All-American selection by SLAM Magazine (along with Gilchrist, Rivers, Beal, Quincy Miller and Marquis Teague ) and Dime Magazine (along with Gilchrist, Rivers, Beal and Myles Mack ). He was a first team selection to the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team . In the statewide voting for Illinois Mr. Basketball by coaches and media, he placed fourth. The Chicago Sun-Times selected him as
24600-695: Was a widespread misunderstanding about how the game of baseball was played, claiming the sport was not defined by its rules but actually, as summarized by engineering professor Richard J. Puerzer, "defined by the conditions under which the game is played – specifically, the ballparks but also the players, the ethics, the strategies, the equipment, and the expectations of the public." Early Sabermetricians – sometimes considered baseball statisticians – began trying to enhance such fundamental baseball statistics as batting average (simply at-bats divided by hits) with advanced mathematical formulations. The correlation between team batting average and runs scored
24764-599: Was also awarded the Pete Newell Big Man Award and the NABC Defensive Player of the Year . CollegeInsider.com recognized him with the Lefty Driesell Award as Defensive Player of the Year and the Kyle Macy Award as Freshman of the Year. Davis twice earned SEC Player of the Week (POTW) honors (Week of February 6 and 27, 2012) and four times, when he was not Player of the Week, he earned SEC Freshman of
24928-403: Was also examined, as runs – not hits – win ballgames. Thus, a good measure of a player's worth would be his ability to help his team score runs, which was observed to be highly correlated with his number of times on base – leading to the development of a new stat, "on-base percentage". Before Bill James popularized sabermetrics, Davey Johnson , then a second baseman playing for
25092-565: Was also named first team All-American by the United States Basketball Writers Association . On March 20, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) chose him as a first team All-American. Davis was a CBSSports.com first team All-American. Davis was named a first team Associated Press All-American, making him a unanimous first team All-American selection. During the 2012 NCAA Tournament, Davis
25256-490: Was also selected as the SEC Player of the Year , SEC Freshman of the Year, SEC Defensive Player of the Year and a first team All-SEC honoree. The SEC awards were selected by the league's 12 coaches who were not permitted to vote for their own players. Thus, no awards were unanimous. Sporting News also selected him as Freshman and Player of the Year for the SEC. Also, the Associated Press selected him as Player and Newcomer of
25420-441: Was known as "the little guy who would shoot threes from the corner". He ended his freshman year at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m). By the beginning of his sophomore year, he had grown another 1 inch (2.5 cm), and he finished the year at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m). Davis began his junior basketball season at 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m), saying he felt fortunate to have had such
25584-483: Was later edited to say "rumors that Davis's commitment is for sale have surfaced since he cut his list of schools down about a month ago." The sentence was removed later that day from the Sun-Times ' high school sports website following a threat from a University of Kentucky lawyer. Anthony Davis Sr. declined to speak to the Chicago Tribune on August 4 regarding the allegation; on July 30, however, he denied
25748-403: Was once considered a popular sabermetric statistic. This statistic attempts to demonstrate how much a player contributes to his team in comparison to a hypothetical player performing at the minimum level needed to hold a roster position on a major league team. It was invented by Keith Woolner, a former writer for the sabermetric group/website Baseball Prospectus . Wins above replacement (WAR)
25912-439: Was one block short of his first five-by-five. It was the first 50-point, 15-rebound, 5-assist, 5-steal performance in NBA history since steals became an officially recorded statistic in the 1973–74 season. His 50-point night was the second highest scoring output of his career and was the most by any NBA player in a season opener since Michael Jordan scored 54 points in 1989. Two days later, he had 45 points and 17 rebounds against
26076-402: Was one of the first of its kind. At first, most organized baseball teams and professionals dismissed Cook's work as meaningless. The idea of a science of baseball statistics began to achieve legitimacy in 1977 when Bill James began releasing Baseball Abstracts , his annual compendium of baseball data. However, James's ideas were slow to find widespread acceptance. Bill James believed there
26240-399: Was played in the 1980s or even before that." Comparing players from different generations using PER presents several problems, this is primarily due to the rule changes and the changes in statistical data collected from different eras (although many other factors could be taken into consideration, even down to the increased sample size as the NBA grew through incorporating more teams). Some of
26404-442: Was selected to replace Kobe Bryant in the 2014 NBA All-Star Game . On February 26, Davis sprained his left shoulder late in the first half against the Dallas Mavericks . He did not play in the rest of the game, and his subsequent availability was listed as day-to-day. Despite his shoulder sprain, Davis matched his career high with 32 points on February 28 against the Phoenix Suns . He was one of six Western Conference Player of
26568-556: Was selected to the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team. Then, in the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament final four , he posted 18 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks against Louisville . In the championship game, he had 16 rebounds, 6 blocks, 5 assists, 3 steals and 6 points against Kansas . He won the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player and was selected to that All-Tournament team. He
26732-487: Was soon thereafter rated as the number one player in the class of 2011 by Scout.com and was listed in the ESPNU 100. Attention came when he started playing on Tai Streets ' Meanstreets (AAU team) traveling system in the spring of his junior year. In late April, Syracuse University offered him a scholarship. That spring, NBA Top 100 Camp Director Dave Telep invited him to the camp based on his dominant first-half performance of
26896-632: Was the fourth freshman to win the Most Outstanding Player award. Davis was named the USBWA National Freshman of the Year . He was selected by the USBWA as the Player of the Year for its 10-man 2011–12 Men's All-District IV (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida) Team. Davis was a first team selection to the NABC Division ;I All-District 21 team on March 14. On April 1, he
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